masking


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Synonyms for masking

the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it

the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation

scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen

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While luminance range masking limits the editing effects to a range of brightness or luminance,color range masking uses a color value or a range of color values to make an accurate mask.
No matter what your finishing process, you can always benefit from consistent masking. It will improve the product quality and speed up the production process.
A special case is that facial expressions of emotion can be accurately identified even when the face is presented under restricted viewing conditions due to short exposure time and/or masking. For example, emotional faces have a lower perceptual threshold than non-emotional faces (Calvo & Esteves, 2005), can be identified with high accuracy with short presentation durations (e.g., Calvo & Lundqvist, 2008) and are quickly detected amongst distracters (e.g., Ohman, Lundqvist, & Esteves, 2001).
The ETL Masking Engine complements the high performance “in-place” masking architecture to offer the best of both approaches.
Masking is applied to the nontest ear if the AC threshold of the test ear is greater than 40 dB above the BC threshold of the nontest ear.
Readers looking for a theoretical approach to masks and masking will not find it here.
LUN masking keeps the unit numbers invisible to unauthorized hosts, and is based on the unique WorldWide Name (WWN) that is stamped on Fibre Channel node chip sets.
Whether in warfare, religion, entertainment, crisis, or celebration, masks have always been agents of change, and the traditions of masking have been predominantly male.
If the traveling salesmen of old had carried masking tape among their wares, they would have hawked it as: "The miracle tape that will cure all your painting ills and home renovation headaches; plus it's a clamp, a lint brush, a Band-Aid.
Here he looks at how you can bring quality and consistency to your masking and finishing process
These pieces are first glued, then securely attached with masking tape to the mask.
Moreover, the same masking is evident in the painted costume worn by Flora in the Primavera [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 11 OMITTED], Botticelli's earlier mascherata of Venus and the Spring, dating to about 1478.
Materials included fast setting plaster bandages, plastic face molds, scissors, pans for water, paper towels, newspapers, masking tape, water soluble paints and articles for adornment, such as beads, feathers and twigs.